The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-04

DAKOTATERRITORIA NEWS.
VIM. Keller, q wholesale liquor deal.
Or Of Canton, was arrested for selling
liquor without q license.
Citizens Of Woonsocket have
been formally notified BY the officials
OF the Duluth, Watertown and Pacific
that Woonsocket's bid for the new
line has been accepted.
The discovery has just been made
Of extensive peat beds on the farm 81
John Il. Marso, in Lake township.
Sully county, ten miles northeast q
Blunt, in the Medicine valley.
Cass county's valuation by the as
sessment this year is $12,174,9 8O, an
increase Of $500, 900 over last year.
There are l3l, sos acres assessed Tor
q total OF $6,l4O,892, an increase q
100000.
While James McGill employed as g
wiper in the Manitoba shops at Minot,
was in bathing he got beyond his
depth and was drowned in the Mouse
river.
During a terrific thunder and rain
storm Charles Herst of Fort Pierre
took his family into a cyclone cellar
and went out to take a last look at
the storm. While at the window he
was struck by lightning and killed. "a
hole as large as q pea was found in his
head, and all his bones were melted
and his body had turned perfectly
black.
The Northwestern Dental associa-
tion met at Fargo with attendance
from North Dakota, Northern Mime.
sofa, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Des
Moines and Milwaukee.
Judge Spencer has dissolved the in
junction which he issued temporarily
restraining the removal of the county
records of Brown county from Column
bia to Aberdeen. A number of men
and teams left Aberdeen for Columbia
to remove. the county records to
Aberdeen. They were obtained with
out resistance.
A Leonard dispatch says that q
hail storm visited that vicinity doing
considerable damage to crops. The
wife of Eckelson Thompson was
struck by lightning and killed.
At Fargo, in addition to the total
destruction of the foundry by the
storm the Milwaukee freight depot,
built OF brick, with slate roof was de-
molished. The goods are being cared
for in freight cars. There were many
minor damages to property.
A terrific hall stormswept over Rap
i'd City, covering the ground to the
depth OF four inches, breaking window
lights on the west and north eides Of
every house in the city. The damage
is estimated at $4,000. A number
of persons were injured, but none IA
tally SO far as heard from. Where
grain was touchedit was totally de-
stroyed.
The territory has commenced it's
series OF liquor prosecutions in Lin
coin county under the local option
law, which prohibits wh~olesaleing
where the county commissioners have
refused to grant license. William
Roller, a wholesale liquor dealer, was
arrested and waived examination to
await the action of the grand jury.
Judge Barnes, now ofDelavan, Wis,
but district judge Of North Dakota up
to 1883, has been spending few weeks
in Fargo. He tells some interesting
anecdotes OF early days on the bench.
Several years ago E. II. Bly,. proprie-
tor of the Sherman house at Bismarck,
was foreman OF the grand jury for the
Burleigh county term OF the district
court, and among the indictments he,
returned were three against himself,
two being for selling. liquor on Sunday,
and the other for allowing gambling
In his house. Hepleaded guilty to ali,
and paid his fine. The Judge SAYS
that at another time J. B. Chaplin Of
Fargo was q member of the grand Jury
that indicted himself (Chapin) for
Sunday liquor selling, and after the
jury had made its report he stepped
out of the jury box and said: 81.
plead guilty to that charge, and / vot-
ed In favor of the Indictment" The
judge fined him $50, and he stepped
up to the clerk and pulled out the
money. As he paid it, he remarked
to the judge, "I've sold liquor for sew
N years-on Sunday as we'll as the
rest Of the week-and / a make
enough in a day to pay this fine. II
believe, though, in upholding the mai.
ssty Of the law"
The college committee OF the Congre.,
g~ational church met at Fargo, and
accepted the proposition made by q
citizens committee in rega.d to the
bonus to be given for a location ofthe
Congregational college in Fargo. IL
was decided to accept the fair grounds
site when the title was cleared. These
selected the following directors for
the first year: Reverends III. C. Sim
mons, r. A. Beard, G. s. Barnes. A.
Z. Gillette, A. ]. Pike, William Ewing.
and Messrs. A. A. Miller, J. T. O'Deg-.
aard, ]. G. Giddings, E. w. Chaffee
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